Unboxious

Brotherhood tries to rush the first half of the original into 3 episodes which ruins the pacing.

I was curious so I took a quick look and it’s actually about 28 episodes.

Probably the reason yeah

The “spoonfeed your man” thing is such a weird flirting ritual. Not once have I thought, “sure would be hot if my wife did that.”.

What a weird conversation.

Gotta put in the obligatory “The bears in the first season look atrocious. I know. Just ignore how awful they look and you’re in for a wild ride.”

If you’re talking about the Tucker family that whole thing actually gets even less time in the original original FMA - that is to say, the manga. I think it’s all over in 2 pages or something crazy like that.

I’m sure it’ll come back, but I’m expecting it to take quite a while if the second season is to be at the same level of quality as the first.

WHA is great, but the first season ends in such an awkward spot I feel bad recommending it to people when we still don’t have a date for Season 2.

To be clear when I say “robot” I’m referring to the autonomous nature, not the shape.

The guy who hates robots being used for war but is the head of the military for the “we should use robots for war” faction?

Lol, Sony is evil but they’re not that openly evil and haven’t been for decades. It’s probably just the boring PHP thing other people have already mentioned.

Also, in a similar vein, Macross.

And also in a dissimilar vein, Macross! Wasn’t Macross the first thing resembling an idol anime?

I’m aware that it wasn’t the first but there’s no denying that SAO kicked off a big trend.

Also .hack//SIGN was boring af; only part worthwhile was the soundtrack.

Not just SAO! I called out Rising of the Shield Hero because unfortunately it popularized the trope where an isekai protag goes and buys some slaves.

Unfortunately I can’t think of any anime that really feel like they’re taking inspiration from Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Canyou give any examples?

It feels like Sword Art Online and Rising of the Shield Hero sure got a lot of imitators though!

Potentially a lot more time; the slow part at the beginning is almost the entire first half. Worth it though.

I love how nonchalant they were about Hikaru fuckin’ killing someone. Hilarious.

Maybe her eyes just don’t feel right if they don’t get their regular hit of chlorine.

It was the translator.

It’s incredibly unclear to me what someone could hope to accomplish by wandering around and poisoning random poor people. Imagine that you only have one life and this is what you choose to do with it.

In case anyone was curious I listened to that bit about the rock’s diameter over and over again and I’m about 90% sure he was actually saying that the monster was about the length of one circuit around the rock, not that its length is the same as the diameter of the rock.

and the paralysis wore off, I guess because of all of the insufferable standing around wasting time

Bro almost died because he was too busy trying to aurafarm or whatever.

tbh I have no idea what this title is trying to say.

I read the first few chapters of this one; it was mid af. One of the worst Weekly Shonen Jump titles I ever read, and probably the worst one that didn’t get the axe.

What a generic image. If you took away the title at the top and told me they made this for Destiny I’d believe you.

Yeah, sometimes it feels like she’s trying to convince herself that she isn’t looking at him romantically, because it would be really troublesome for her in the future if she were.

This war criminal lmao. I can’t even tell if Momoka’s tears are real because we didn’t get her internal thoughts and if there were anyone who would cry fake tears it would be the girl who told her crush and his crush that it would be really creepy and weird if friends were to see each other as romantic prospects!

this lack of trolling is somewhat implausible

I actually don’t think so; it looks like there’s only one of these guys for everyone playing the game to share so it’s possible the moment it spawns people are already queued up to kill it.

This game that the world is based off of is a very weird game that doesn’t work, IMO. The dream lord is not instanced, but shared between all parties, and it’s got a mechanic that only works when it kills a lot of adventurers? That just seems like a bad game design to me. Those MMO raids are always more about learning the boss’s mechanics, and then executing them. If the game is designed to always wipe some parties, all of that design will go to waste when the mechanic is understood. So, I don’t think it would be designed like that.

You’re right, but tbf there are some pretty shit MMOs in this world.

Did not expect them to pull out the old OP there at the end. How nostalgic! I wonder if they’ll keep using that for the rest of the season.